Kaitlin completed a Bachelor of Broadcasting Communications in Journalism at the New Zealand Broadcasting School. She was a newsreader and editor at Mediaworks from 2012 to 2014 before moving to TVNZ in 2015, starting off on Breakfast, before reporting for 1 NEWS, and most recently as a reporter for Fair Go. In that time, she has made her mark covering the Tasman wildfires, pushing to highlight the emerging workplace disease accelerated silicosis, and more recently, having her feet on the ice in Antarctica and producing the interactive documentary ‘Answers Under the Ice’.

Kaitlin was a finalist for the Best Innovation in Digital Storytelling award in 2021, the Best Junior Videographer in 2019 and the Best News Coverage of a Major Event for her reporting on ex-cyclones Fehi & Gita.